Closed Man City 2-0 Chelsea

[Jase 43,479]

Manchester City 2-0 Chelsea
POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS



FA Cup 5th Round
15th February, Saturday, 2014
Etihad Stadium
17:15 Kick Off (UK time)

[CHOULO19 24,332]

City beat us to pretty much everything. We never got into the match. They just wanted it much more than us. They were tactically, physically, technically better.

[Strike 6,961]

move on from this. nothing positive here

[pakito 17]

One would laugh that we didn't create single chance in whole game if only that wasn't so painful. Gotta agree with peeps who said that Man City only had bad patch cause they had Aguero, Fernandinho, Garca, Nasri, Nastasic out

[Sidzeret 2,257]

No shots on target. That's the way to give the finger to the FA.

[Toli 977]

awful from beginnig to the start. mous selection shit, his subs shit and when on earth Willian and Hazard will get some rest?

matic really bad today. luiz is just awful, we can only pray someone actually bids 30-35 m in the summer for him

[Las7 951]

Willian no end product; Rambo woeful passing; Mikel is like an immovable object out there just jogging around; Cech flapping around; Eto'o and Torres invisbru; Luiz typically un-assured.

Only player who was up to par I think was Cahill.

Poor match - on wards and upwards

[Peppen 934]

Shitstorm incoming.

On a more serious note, we were beaten everywhere. They were playing well, and we were shit. Easy explanation.

Onwards and upward!

[NishC300 1,865]

Poor poor performance. And don't make excuses like "Oh well we won in the League." Is that an excuse for performing poorly in this game? Terrible stuff and to think they rested players. Should have started with Oscar/Schurrle. Moreover, I'm not gonna criticise this decision too much but why wasn't Schurrle brought on rather than Salah? Did Schurrle like steal Mourinho's packet of chips on the bus? Schurrle's got some experience and it's tough for Salah to just come on and play Manchester City at the Ethiad when he's barely in his career played a top European team and usually faced teams from the Swiss league.

Dull and terrible. Didn't even bother trying to pull one back. Aren't we supposed to play well in the big games?

[Polo7 3,496]

I hope I never see Luiz play as CB for us again. He is by far the biggest liability on this planet. Cahill was a lone CB today. Our attack was pretty much non existent until Oscar came on so I voted for him. One less competition, hopefully we can go on and win the league now.

[Weckerz 3,781]

Embarrasing, so much mediocrity in this team. Several players need a rest but still, the difference between City and us is that they have players in every area who are at least decent on the ball.

Our team is 20% brilliance 80% clumsiness.

[TrippingStep 336]

We need to use more players of our squad.

Today was like one of our awful matches of the beginning of the season.

[CMS 382]

One would laugh that we didn't create single chance in whole game if only that wasn't so painful. Gotta agree with peeps who said that Man City only had bad patch cause they had Aguero, Fernandinho, Garca, Nasri, Nastasic out

Wrong! We've beaten them with those guys on the line up in the past.

[edetarod 2,155]

i hope Jose knows what he's doing, the players looked knackered out there, and the season is still long

we need more rotation

[CMS 382]

I think Jose has pulled another fast one on Pelegrini. They spend a lot of energy winning this game when they have Barca this Tuesday. He played his full strength.So it will be interesting to see what he does against Barca.

[Laylabelle 9,296]

What crap.Least we only lost 2-0..makes a change from their usual 3-0 up bussiness once they get going.Didnt get going and it showed.

Onto the next game...and to not play like this in that!

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,738]

The one thing I wont understand is why bring on Salah to play as a forward but not a guy we had on the bench with experience in such a position(Schurrle)?

Surely his time here is up. Same for Cole too.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Salah is fucking useless. What people see in this guy I dont know...speed is all he has. He is weaker than Mata ffs.

And Oscar's creativity is shit. Toure makes better chances, not to mention that Silva is what Oscar wants to be. Hardworking #10. Mikel and Torres are wankers. Luiz should go home. Hazard is tired. Willian needs to show he is worth those 35mio. And where the fuck is 18mio boy Schurrle? Not to mention Ramires who is geting worse and worse...

We were shit as hell.